Corruption Scandal Noose Tightens Around Democrat Mayor

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams is doing his best to remain in the calm eye, while a hurricane of scandal swirls around him. The FBI conducted a series of “coordinated early morning raids” on Wednesday. Agents walked away with evidence including phones from the “homes of more than half a dozen senior city officials.” Everyone but the Mayor. He continues to insist he’s not next on their list.

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Mayor Eric Adams worked his way into City Hall by rising through the ranks of the NYPD, from patrolman on up. He knows a thing or two about keeping a crime scene under control, NY Mag points out.

They say the mass raids rattled him and he’s “doing his best to keep a possible crime scene under control — move along, folks, nothing to see here.” Even so, “the dark cloud of scandal hanging over City Hall is proving to be bigger and thicker than Hizzoner can blow away with breezy slogans and a sunny grin.

The Federal Bureau of Instigation raided “Sheena Wright, first deputy mayor; David Banks, schools chancellor, and his brother Philip Banks III, deputy mayor for public safety; Edward Caban, NYPD commissioner; and Timothy Pearson, mayoral adviser.” Practically everyone but Adams.

Just like that, the leadership of New York’s government was thrown into a state of confusion.” How focused will they be on their work when they’re worried about heading to prison.

When 15 FBI agents show up at your house at 5 a.m., as witnesses say happened at the Hollis home of Phil Banks, it’s safe to assume that the day’s focus will shift from managing the city’s bureaucracy to saving one’s own skin.” Adams is using the standard tactic of deny everything.

His lawyer, Lisa Zornberg, proclaimed, “Investigators have not indicated to us the mayor or his staff are targets of any investigation.” They don’t actually tell anyone they’re under investigation. That ruins the surprise.

A micromanager who appointed nearly every one of the people under scrutiny.

A micromanager

Adams is going to have a hard time convincing everyone he had no idea what sort of shady personal projects they had going. Especially when he’s “a micromanager” who “appointed nearly every one of the people under scrutiny, even in the face of what outsiders considered big red warning flags.

His buddy Phil Banks for instance. Ten years ago, Banks “suddenly resigned as the NYPD’s chief of department.” He was soon listed as “an unindicted participant in a corruption scandal.

Pearson “took a job in the administration while also initially remaining on the payroll of Resorts World Casino, where he was in charge of security.” He stopped “double dipping” when that was exposed but he was also “appointed to the city’s Economic Development Corporation.

You may remember him from being at the center of “a mêlée at a migrant shelter that involved 100 officers, drones, and a physical scuffle with security staff.” That’s another thing under investigation. Adams hasn’t lifted a finger to alter his duties or anything after Pearson was hit with “four lawsuits accusing him of sexual harassment.

Commissioner Caban, meanwhile, has a twin brother Richard who “was operating a Bronx bar and restaurant called Con Sofrito.” It’s amazing how much money the city drops in that place. Adams celebrated his birthday there and it’s a favorite hangout for NYPD brass who like to party.

The mayor, the New York Post editorial board writes, “needs to tell police commissioner Edward Caban to resign.” That’s because “even if he’s cleared, bad blood will fester on. The only losers in this scenario are the NYPD and the people of New York City. Indeed, Adams likely needs to jettison every aide who now threatens to sink his mayoralty.

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